Manifolding sales-check device.



. E. Z. LEWIS. MANIFOLDING SALES CHECK DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAB.11,1908.

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MANIFOLDING SALES CHECK DEVICE.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR.11,1908.

Patented Aug. 3, 1909.

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EDWARD ZUVER LEWIS, 0F FRANKLIN, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE GENERAL MANI- FOLD AND PRINTING COMPANY, OF FRANKLIN, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

XANIFOLDING SALES-CHECK DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 3, 1909.

Application filed larch 11, 1908. Serial No. 420,809.

ments in Manifolding Sales-Check Devices;

and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in manifolding sales check devices, such as are used in restaurants and like establishments where foods and refreshments are dispensed, and the invention refers more specifically to a novel holder designed for use in connection with a group or book of customers or sales checks on which the various items of the orders are entered, and which are presented to the cashier when ayment for said orders are made, and to a b slips upon which the different items of the orders, obtained from various departments or stations of the establishment, are entered at the same time said items are entered on the customers check said check slips being de tached by the waiter and delivered to the persons at the diiierent de artments or stations whose duty it is to ii 1 the orders or to check the same at the time said orders are filled.

The invention consists in the matters hereinafter set forth and more particularly v pointed out in the appended clalms.

A sales check device embodying my invention embraces a holder for a book or grou of customers checks and a holder for a boo or group of check slips which is permanently connected with the customers check holder in such manner that said check slips may be placed or inserted beneath a customers check when the itemsv of an order are to be I entered or written on the latter, whereby the said items, at the time they are entered on the customer's check, may be transferred, through the means of a transfer medium, as one or more carbon surfaces, to one or a number of check slips beneath the same; the items of the order to be obtained from different stations or departments being entered on separate check slips, and all the items of an order being entered serc'attm on the cus-' 00k or group of check tomers check. When an additional order is given by the customer after the first order is filled or partially filled, it is entered on the customer s check and on a still further check slip placed or inserted beneath said check, sald slip being thereafter delivered to the proper order filling station when the latter item of the order is filled. The said custhe last item of the order is filled so that all the items of an order, given at different times, appear on the check, while such items appear on a number of different order slips which have been delivered to the different order filling stations.

Among the objects of my invention is to provide a simple and convenient device by which a book or group of check slips for the purpose specified may be permanently main tained' in such relation to a book or group of customers checks that the various items of an order entered or written on a customers check at any time may be conveniently transferred to one of the check slips; the holder or support for the order slips being so connected with the holder or support for the customers, checks that said slips are always conveniently at hand and may be readily interleaved or inserted beneath the customers checks in position to receive a carbon or transfer impression at the time the items are written or entered on a superposed customers check.

In the drawirigsz-Figure 1 is a perspective view of a sales check device made in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the device showing the order slips in the position which they occupy when an order is to be entered on a customers check. Fig. 3 is a transverse section taken on line 3-3 of'Fig. 2. Fi 4 is a plan view of one of the check slips. Fig. 5 is a bottom plan view of the check slip holder. Fig. 6 IS a view of the base or foundation of a group or book of check slips, illustrating the means of removably mounting a book of check slips on the holder. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of my device as shown in Fig. 1 with an auxiliary check added thereto. Fig. 8 is a face view of the additional or auxiliary check, and Fig. 9 is a view' of the under side of said auxiliary check.

In said drawings, A designates a book or group of customers checks composed of a lurality of-superposed leaves a removahl l liound together at their end margins, and

tomers checks are retained in the book until designates a holder for said hook to which the book is attached in any suitable manner.

The checks a shown are of familiar form,.

- composed of a plurality. of leaves 0 which are bound together at one end margin, and C designates a holder therefor arranged at one side of the holder B. The said holder 0 is hinged to the holder B in such manner that it may be laterally swung over the book of checks at on the holder B so as to brin the uppermost. check slip beneath one o? the customers checks, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The hinged connection between said holders is made as follows: D designates a straight rod which is arranged parallel with one lateral margin of the holder B and is attached at its ends to said holder, the ends at of the rod being turned inwardly and attached to the holder by means of nails or rivets d. E, E designate rings which encircle the rod D and extend through openings 0 in the margin of the holder C adjacent to the holder B. The said rings are made of a diameter to permit such freedom of movement of the holder G with respect to the rod D, that said holder 0 may rest flat on the book of customers checks notwithstanding the var 'ng thickness of said book. The holders B and C may be made of relatively .heavy paperboard, in which event it is de sirable to reinforce or stiffen the margin of the holder B to which they hinge rod D is attached. For this purpose said margin is shown as provided with a metal reinforcin strip B herein shown as made of channe form to embrace said margin. The rivets or nails d, by which said rod is fastened in place, extend through the flanges of said channel reinforcing strip and the margin of the holders. When the holder C and the check slips mounted thereon are swung away from the holder B, as shown in Fig. 1, the said holder lies on top of the book of check slips, and when swung inwardly over the holder B and the customers checks, the said holder C lies between the lowermost check slip and the subjacent customers slip, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The said holder C is made of relatively thick material and prevents a carbon impression being made on a subja'cent customers check when the last check slip of a book or series C is in position to receive a carbon or transfer copy of an item or items entered on a customers check.

The carbon or transfer material is in this instance applied to the back or rear faces of the customers checks, as shown at a this arrangement rendering unnecessary the use of separate carbon sheets and greatly facilitating the manipulation of the device. The said check slips and the holder therefor are made shorter than the customers checks and the holder for the latter, and are adapted to he moved longitudinally of the'customers check holder in order to bring said check slips into posit-ion to receive a transferred impression of an item written on any portion of the length of the section a of a customers check. The form of hinge connection shown letween said holders B and C permits the check slip holder to be moved freely from one end to the other of the customers check holder for the purpose described.

In arranging the device to enter an order on one of the customers checks a, such check is first folded backwardly and the book of check slips and the support therefor are then swung over the customers checks into the position shown in Fi s. 2' and 3. The customers check upon w ich the order is to be entered is thereafter laid over the check slips and the book of check slips is shifted to a position beneath that part of the customer s check on which the order is to be entered. The items of the order are then written in the transverse spaces of the section a of the customers check at which time the prices of the various items may be entered opposite thereto in the vertical column at the righthand side of said check. By reason of the interposition of the transfer material between the up er customers check and the u per check s ip the entry of the order so ma e is simultaneousl made on the check slip below. Usua ly the principal part of the order, such as the items which are to be obtained from the kitchen, will be first entered at the'up er art of the section a of the customers c. cc: and the check slips are made of sufficient length to contain a number of items embraced in an order of usual size.

Items embraced in the same order and which are filled at another station as, for instance, at the bar or cigar counter, may be entered at the same or a later time. When entered at the same time said items will be transferred to another check slip or slips, the check slip which received the previous transfer being swung to one side, after the customers check has been swung backwardly, to present the next lower check slip in position to receive the transferred impression of the next entry, the book of check slips and support therefor being in the meantime shifted downwardly to the next position of entry on the customers check. In this manner any number of different items of an orderto be filled at difierent stations may be entered on the customers check and each.

item or group of items transferred to its proper check slip. Moreover, several different orders may be entered on as many different customers checks by a waiter serving a number of different patrons at one time, and the-items of each order to be filled at different stations transferred to different check sli s which are thereafter removed or detache from the book C. The check slips bear the number of the waiter to corres end with the number on the customers c 'eck and are provided with s acesc to receive the serial numbers of .sai customers" checks. After the order has been entered in the manner described, the check slips are detached and are deposited .at the stations at which the items of the order which they bear are filled, and the customers check remains attached to the book A. When the order is completed the customers check is footed and delivered to the customer, to be handed to the cashier when the check is paid. If a second or third item or grou of items is to be added to an order, the boo of check slips is again inserted beneath the customers check to receive the carbon impression of the added item or items, and the new check slip is deposited at the station at which said item or items of the order is filled.

It will thus be seen that an order made up of a number of items to be filled at different stations'may be entered seriatim on the customers check and that each item or group of items of the order to be filled at different stations will be transferred to check slips which are delivered to the proper stations. Thus the proprietor of an establishment is enabled to check the items furnished to patrons from different stations or departments, and by comparing the several items on the customers checks with the several check slips he may ascertain if all the items on the check slips have been properly entered on the customers check and paid for bv the customer. It will also be manifest that the device herein shown and described affords an exceedingly simple and effective means for interleaving the check slips with the customers checks and keeping the slips together until the proper time to deposit them at the order filling stations at the times the-orders are filled. Thus liability of the waiters losing the check slips after they are made out, or otherwise committing errors is greatly lessened. The said customers check book and the check slip book may be attached to the holders B and C in any suitable or preferred manner. It is desirable, however, that means be provided for detachably fixing the books to said holders, whereby, when a book of either kind is exhausted it may be readily placed on the holder. A simple and effective means for thus fastening the customers check book and check slip book to their holders consists in providing the holders B and C with pockets B and 0 respectively, and mounting the leaves of said books on relatively heavy backings A and C, respectively, provided with tongues a and 0 respectively, which enter said pocket, in the manner most clearly shown in Figs. 2, 3, 5 and 6. The end margins of the leaves a are shown as bound together by a common form of wire staples or fasteners F and the leaves a may be separately removed by being severed from said bound edges along the weakened or perforated line f (Fig. 1). Any other suitable method of removably securing together the leaves a may of course be used.

{in Figs. 7, 8 and 9 of the drawings is shown an additional or auxiliary check sheet G, in-

tended for use inconnection with the sales check devices hereinbefore described in case the orders given b a customer are so many that they cannot be written on one of the main leaves or checks (1 of the device. Such auxiliary sheet G will have on its rear face a coating of transfer material, and will be provided also on'i'ts rear surface at one lateral edge thereof, with adhesive material or gum, as indicated at 9, Fig. 9, by which it may be attached to the uppermost or exposed leaf (1 ofthe book of checks. Said auxiliary sheet will have applied to it, or written thereon, a number corresponding with that printed on the several leaves a, a of the book. Preferably the gummed edge of the said auxiliary leaf will be secured to the lower surface of the leaf 0, at the left hand edge of the latter, and the body of the auxiliary leaf will be folded along the dotted line g (Fig. 8) over or against said sheet a, as shown in Fig. 7.

Preferably, also the auxiliary sheet will be manner described, then swing the holder B with the check slips over upon the sheet a, and between the latter and the attached auxiliary sheet. The item or items constituting the order will then be written on the auxiliary sheet, and transferred to the check slip beneath it. The check slip is then detached from the book C and used by the waiter to obtain the desired articles from the proper department. The auxiliary sheet will remain attached to the customer s check, and the cost of the items thereon will be added to those entered on the main check, before the check is handed to the customer.

I make no claim herein to the sales check provided with a transferring composition on its rear. surface and also gummed on its said rear surface along one. of its lateral edges: as

herein illustrated and described, but reserve 3. A sales check device com rising a book the right to claim the same in another appliof customers checks and a hold cation. book of check slips and a holder therefor, and o I claim as my invention a hinge connection between said holders 1. A sales check device comprising a book comprising a hinge rod arranged parallel of customers checks, a holder therefor with with one margin of the customers check means for detachably fixing said book thereholder and attached at its ends thereto and 30 to, a book of check slifps, a holder therefor rin s attached to said check slip holder and provided with means or detachably fixing em racing said rod, said customers check said book of slips thereto, and a hinge conholder being rovided at. its margin adjacent nection between said holders arranged to to said hinged connections with a reinforcing permit the check slip holder to swing laterally stri and said hinged rod being attached to 35 over the customers check holder and also to sai holder by fastening devices extending slide longitudinally thereof. through said reinforcing strip.

2. A sales check device comprising a book In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as of customers checks, a holder therefor, a my invention I afiix my signature in the book of check slips and a holder therefor, presence of two Witnesses, this 21st day of 40 and a hinge COILIlBCtiOIl getween sa(i1d holdleirs ebruary A. D. 1908.

compnsmg a mge ro arrange para e with one margin of the customers check EDWARD ZUVER LEWIS holder and attached at its ends'thereto and Witnesses:

rings attached to said check slip holder and TAYLOR C. BROWN,

racing said rod. I GEORGE R. WILKINS.

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